pissedagain
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your so called itk danny wilson will not have even been told of these plans yet..but it will happen
pissedagain said:ok SWP lets just agree to disagree, after all thats what a fans forum is for
SWP's back said:pissedagain said:the ballot will take place in future, it will have to, we now have people with high number of points on gold cards and a lot of people have opted for platinum so in theory over a couple of years they will catch up on points...like i said give it a couple of years...we will have no choice, just like trafford...and i dont understand this question about making money of a ballot, if you have 3000 tickets to sell you can sell them to blue card holders, you still only get money for the 3000 tickets..so if they go to a ballot or not its the same amount of money
Oh jesus, I didn't think I'd have to explain it. Right, with a ballot, everyone has the same chance of going. With loyalty points, the club can (and does) charge for people to get extra points (platinum etc). They add double points on less glamorous ties etc (as seen last year in europe). By doing so (as people want to increase their points), then the club brings more money in and can get people to buy tickets for less attractive games.
If a ballot was introduced (which will never happen), then the club can't ever make any extra money and have no carrot or stick to get people to go to Burnley at home in the CC etc.
What the club may do is bring in a rolling 10 year period (or something similar) on loyalty points or just wait until the older SC holders die off and have a natural cycle.
One thing the club have absolutely no intention of ever doing (and has never even been discussed - yes I am ITK on this as I have asked on several occasions) is introducing a ballot.
The rags can do it as they have 99% full housees every game and 300m (hmm) fans to call on.
mcfcliam said:SWP's back said:pissedagain said:the ballot will take place in future, it will have to, we now have people with high number of points on gold cards and a lot of people have opted for platinum so in theory over a couple of years they will catch up on points...like i said give it a couple of years...we will have no choice, just like trafford...and i dont understand this question about making money of a ballot, if you have 3000 tickets to sell you can sell them to blue card holders, you still only get money for the 3000 tickets..so if they go to a ballot or not its the same amount of money
Oh jesus, I didn't think I'd have to explain it. Right, with a ballot, everyone has the same chance of going. With loyalty points, the club can (and does) charge for people to get extra points (platinum etc). They add double points on less glamorous ties etc (as seen last year in europe). By doing so (as people want to increase their points), then the club brings more money in and can get people to buy tickets for less attractive games.
If a ballot was introduced (which will never happen), then the club can't ever make any extra money and have no carrot or stick to get people to go to Burnley at home in the CC etc.
What the club may do is bring in a rolling 10 year period (or something similar) on loyalty points or just wait until the older SC holders die off and have a natural cycle.
One thing the club have absolutely no intention of ever doing (and has never even been discussed - yes I am ITK on this as I have asked on several occasions) is introducing a ballot.
The rags can do it as they have 99% full housees every game and 300m (hmm) fans to call on.
United have a loyalty pot...it's not random.
pissedagain said:err based on 4000 went to hamburg for a friendly
GStar said:pissedagain said:err based on 4000 went to hamburg for a friendly
I'd look at our recent European away followings over a one off friendly... think its more accurate.
tasker said:lets hope theres some news on the tickets this week, so people can start making plans. someone said the rags only got 3,000. but bayern fans saying we could get up to 5,000. would be great to see 5,000 blues in the centre of munich
Roger Ringpiece said:There is nothing but speculation on here about numbers, ballots, etc. Anyone coming out with this information should back it up with evidence or say nothing if you can't prove it.
That said I heard we were getting 10,000 tickets, being made available by a ballot to blue card holders with less than 500 points only.
in the stadium, you're avin a laughEccles Blue said:tasker said:lets hope theres some news on the tickets this week, so people can start making plans. someone said the rags only got 3,000. but bayern fans saying we could get up to 5,000. would be great to see 5,000 blues in the centre of munich
And even better to see 5,000 fans actually in the stadium!! ;-)